Dubya is that you???
As someone who owns an IT consulting firm and refuses to hire any H1B Indians, I have done my clients a great service. I could wax for 9 paragraphs here about Indian IT “Talent”. Their limited capacity to understand quality, timeliness, and sticking to your word. There is a reason their culture is a sh*thole. It’s the people. I have more business than I can handle right now and am looking at quoting an 8 figure project Statement of Work that a large consulting firm is on presently that I can take from my prospect is filled with Indian mumblers and goldbrickers. I have 3 guys I work with who are seasoned red white and blues and they are worth 10 Indians a piece. H1B = Useless. I have never seen one case where there is not an American that can do it. Whether it’s IT admin work, database programming, or project management. I personally have two dear American friends of Indian descent, but would I hire their cousin from Mumbai...oh hell no.
Dubya is that you???
I'm talking about Trump's new rules, not what it has devolved into. I don't mind companies bidding to bring the top PhD semiconductor researcher from Japan at a very high salary. I didn't like that all the slots were used for things we would have the college interns do where I work. Use the H1B program to skim off the best of other countries and get them to work for us rather than another quarter million of their tech school grads.
I've said before that rather than a lottery H1Bs should be by bidding to drive up the costs or given to the employees so they can move around for higher pay rather than be stuck at a low paid ibdentured servitude.